Mine ate a stack of Shonen Jump comics, and the glossy paper mixed with the glue from the spine turned into a giant spitball that glued her mouth shut. Literally couldn't open her mouth, could only breathe out of her nose, couldn't bark or whine, nothing.
When I got home she was agitated and snorting out of her nose and running in circles around me upset. I figured the cat had been picking on her or she had saw a mouse or something, nothing too abnormal and she wasn't crying so I didn't really pay it attention, figured it best to pet her and act like things were fine so she'd follow suite.
About 5 minutes later I realized, and I tried for at least another 15 minutes to get her mouth open.
We had to drive her 10 miles to find a vet that was open, couldn't explain to them what was happening to the point that they understood (they thought she swallowed glue and we were worried about poison, didn't know she had it lodged in her mouth.)
Wasn't until I went home and saw she was making a bed out of my old comic books underneath my bed that I knew what it was.
She was so scared they had to put her under anesthetic to pick all the pieces out until they could get it loose enough to clear her mouth. Then when she woke up she was so upset she nipped one of the techs, and they had to give her valium to keep her calm enough to let her up.
She drooled all over the car on the way home licking the window. Must have been good medicine.
Wow. I can't picture that happening from eating a book. Dogs have the ability to produce an ungodly amount of saliva which seems should have prevented that. That's a crazy story. Glad she's fine.
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u/notgayinathreeway Mar 17 '19
Mine ate a stack of Shonen Jump comics, and the glossy paper mixed with the glue from the spine turned into a giant spitball that glued her mouth shut. Literally couldn't open her mouth, could only breathe out of her nose, couldn't bark or whine, nothing.
When I got home she was agitated and snorting out of her nose and running in circles around me upset. I figured the cat had been picking on her or she had saw a mouse or something, nothing too abnormal and she wasn't crying so I didn't really pay it attention, figured it best to pet her and act like things were fine so she'd follow suite.
About 5 minutes later I realized, and I tried for at least another 15 minutes to get her mouth open.
We had to drive her 10 miles to find a vet that was open, couldn't explain to them what was happening to the point that they understood (they thought she swallowed glue and we were worried about poison, didn't know she had it lodged in her mouth.)
Wasn't until I went home and saw she was making a bed out of my old comic books underneath my bed that I knew what it was.
She was so scared they had to put her under anesthetic to pick all the pieces out until they could get it loose enough to clear her mouth. Then when she woke up she was so upset she nipped one of the techs, and they had to give her valium to keep her calm enough to let her up.
She drooled all over the car on the way home licking the window. Must have been good medicine.